Arminio (HWV 36) (Full Score hardback)

Handel Arminio (HWV 36) (Full Score hardback)

- Also available vocal score BA 4100-90

- Performance material available for hire

- Urtext edition based on the Halle Handel Edition Series II/35

- Libretto in Italian with singable German translation

- Comprehensive foreword (Ger/Eng) with important information on the history of the libretto as well as on the genesis and the performance history of the work.  A detailed resume of the plot is also contained.

- Extensive appendix with richly ornamented versions of two arias

- Straight-forward piano reduction in the vocal score

Antonio Salvi’s Arminio is one of the best-loved operatic librettos of the Baroque period.  Against the historical background of the so-called “Battle of the Teutoburg Forest” in 9 AD in which the Cherusci leader Arminius as “Liberator of Germany” (Tacitus) inflicted a devastating defeat on the Romans, Handel’s opera, first performed in 1737, is about the disputes between the Chatti and the Cherusci.  Arminius has married the daughter of his arch-enemy Segestes.  When he is imprisoned, Segestes, who has conspired with the Romans, sees his opportunity for revenge.